Local stories
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Silverstein Base Hillel provides warm Jewish home in Lincoln Park
JUF’s Metro Chicago Hillel is creating an innovative new model for welcoming urban students and…
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Kedar Potdar promoted to Vice President, JUF Technology
Since 2015, he has served as director and most recently as acting manager of JUF…
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Robert A. Schuckman promoted to JUF Vice President, Legal Counsel
Schuckman joined JUF in 2001.
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Ashkenazi Jewish woman in London seeks stem cell donors
Her children have launched the #Spit4Mum to find her a stem cell donor.
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Orphaned Israeli teens take post-b'nai mitzvah trip to Chicago
A group of Israeli teens visited Chicago this week as part of a special North…
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‘Defiant Requiem’ to make Chicago premiere March 23
Virginia and Norman Bobins, Karyn and Bill Silverstein will chair the benefit for Holocaust Community…
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JUF-Federation allocates over $153 million to continue critical life-enhancing work in FY 2017
For 116 years, the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has been at the…
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Abner Mikva—congressman, federal court judge, and advisor to presidents—dies at 90
One of the most-told stories in Chicago involves a law-school student who tried to volunteer…
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Writing their stories: Reversing the culture of silence around gender-based violence
Decades before a sexual assault victim had the courage to fight back against her Stanford…
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Local businessman produces feature film ‘Tommy’s Honour’
Local venture capitalist and golf enthusiast Keith Bank has produced his second motion picture.